Specialist vocabulary

📖 What we’ve learned from #ExpertDebate – Wellcome’s Director Jeremy Farrar reflects on the issues that mistrust of expertise raises for researchers. He warns us to beware double meanings when talking science: these 5 words have different meanings in the context of science vs everyday usage: theory, significant, risk, determine, predict.

👂 I’m really enjoying the current BBC World Service series 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy. Wondering how the development of air-conditioning might be linked to Ronald Reagan winning the 1980 US Presidential Election? Listen to the episode on air-conditioning and then catch up with all the others. Each episode is only 9 minutes long, and all of them will give you something to think about.